To combat poverty in the city of reading and berks county and to help low and moderate income residents become more self-sufficient.

Community Improvement & Capacity Building

The pre k counts provides high quality pre-kindergarten to young children by providing children with a comprehensive program of learning to meet their social, emotional, health, nutritional and psychological needs. During the 2017 program year bcap provided services to 349 children, ages 3-4, in berks county, pennsylvania. Services are free of charge to families who live up to 300% of the federal poverty guidelines. weatherization program: the weatherization program provides energy conservation measures to home owners and tenants by providing insulation, weather-stripping, caulking, furnace tune-up and repair and counseling in an effort to reduce energy consumption and cost while saving low and moderate income individuals and households money. During the 2017 program year bcap provided services to 329 individuals / homes. work ready program: the work ready program provides job readiness instruction, job search/job placement services as well as on site job coaching to clients in an effort to move them off the rolls of public assistance to self-sufficiency. Referrals are made directly from the county assistance office and provides for follow-up and outreach. During the 2017 program year bcap provided services to 189 individuals of which 42 achieved employments.